IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition
June 16, 1997 (just before CVPR '97) -- El San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico
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Objectives
In contrast to object recognition strategies which assume knowledge of the
exact shape or appearance of an object, generic object recognition endeavors
to recognize objects based on their coarse, prototypical shape. Although a
popular topic in the 1970's, generic object recognition has given up the
recognition spotlight to such schemes as alignment, geometric hashing (and
other geometric invariant-based indexing), and eigenspace methods. Recently,
however, interest in recognition domains where exact object geometry is
unknown, e.g., content-based image retrieval and non-rigid object
recognition, has revived an interest in generic object recognition. This
workshop is a response to that interest.
The workshop will consist of 11 invited talks by prominent researchers
working on generic object modeling and recognition. The talks will be
approximately 30 minutes in duration with an open discussion session in the
afternoon. A full schedule for the workshop can be found below.
Any further questions should be addressed to one of the co-chairs.
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Co-Chairs
Sven J. Dickinson Ram Nevatia
Department of Computer Science and
Center for Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University University of Southern California
sven@cs.rutgers.edu nevatia@iris.usc.edu
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Invited Speakers
Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute
Tom Binford, Stanford University
Kevin Bowyer, University of South Florida
Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University
Chitra Dorai, IBM Watson Research Center
David Forsyth, University of California, Berkeley
Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California
Jean Ponce, Uiversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
Kaleem Siddiqi, Yale University
Alan Yuille, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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Schedule
8:30 - 9:00 Sven Dickinson (introduction)
9:00 - 9:30 Ronen Basri
9:30 - 10:00 Alan Yuille
10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Stan Sclaroff
11:00 - 11:30 Kaleem Siddiqi
11:30 - 12:00 Jean Ponce
12:00 - 1:30 lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Tom Binford
2:00 - 2:30 Chitra Dorai
2:30 - 3:00 David Forsyth
3:00 - 3:30 coffee break
3:30 - 4:00 Gerard Medioni
4:00 - 4:30 Kevin Bowyer
4:30 - 5:30 open discussion
5:30 Ram Nevatia (closing remarks)
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Registration Information
IEEE Members $40, Nonmembers $50, Full-time Students $20
On-line registration available through the CVPR registration web site.